Thursday, May 19, 2016

This time I have a question completely unrelated to Minecraft, but I'm sure you can help me:) What books do you...

This time I have a question completely unrelated to Minecraft, but I'm sure you can help me:)  What books do you recommend for a 10 years old English learner?
He already read in original all Roald Dahl books for kids and complete Harry Potter & Diary of a Wimpy Kid collections. I just bought him The Chronicles of Narnia complete collection (for less than 1$ on Google Play Books) but I'm looking for other ideas too.

Friday, May 13, 2016

The power of minecraft and skyping!

The power of minecraft and skyping! So awesome seeing Emanuel trying out his Portuguese with two kids from our school through skype. In order to play minigames in Minecraft with them he had to speak in Portuguese, I told him. That was the first time I heard him interact naturally with someone in Portuguese. Being highly motivated to communicate with someone and engaging in authentic and meaningful task do make the difference :) Finally discovered what makes him use Portuguese ;) I'm so happy!

I put together Scratch, Scriptcraft and Minecraft for the Scratch Day event that I will host tomorrow for a few kids.

I put together Scratch, Scriptcraft and Minecraft for the Scratch Day event that I will host tomorrow for a few kids.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-s_GQaaUI

Friday, May 6, 2016

Hi all.

Hi all.

Has any of you guys tried programming in Minecraft with Scratch? I had a go at it, but it didn't work really (technical issues).  Has anyone had more luck?

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Here is a YouTube rendition of the #learning2gether and #slmooc16 event where Jeff Kuhn, Linda Gielen, Mircea...

Here is a YouTube rendition of the #learning2gether  and #slmooc16  event where Jeff Kuhn, Linda Gielen, Mircea Patrascu, Rose Bard, Robert Ogorek, and Anna Jędryczko demonstrated through screenshare in Adobe Connect some of the work they have done on the EVO Minecraft server maintained by Aaron Schwartz at Ohio University. The panelists explained how they use Minecraft for community-based teacher professional development and work with students in their own Minecraft virtual spaces.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD1BQMcFMdE

This is about the best I've been able to do so far.

This is about the best I've been able to do so far. I can't get comments to upload consistently to blogger. It might be a bandwidth ...